March 22nd

March 23, 2012

NORTH KINGSTOWN - Members of the North Kingstown Town Council, along with the town clerk and other town staff, spent over five hours meeting with town department heads to go through all the individual budgets for fiscal year 2012/2013 Monday afternoon and, in a unanimous vote, approved the town managerâs preliminary budget of $98,995,928.

March 21st

March 22, 2012

It's budget season in NK and Exeter!
In this week's Standard Times, we bring you the latest information on NK Town Manager Michael Embury's preliminary budget and let you know what programs/departments you can expect to receive more or less than ever before.
In addition, we bring you the latest on a farm fire on Tower Hill Road, introduce you to the new mascot of Wawaloam Elementary School and give you an exclusive update on the Vision of Exeter project.
All that and much, much more in this week's Standard Times. Pick up a copy today!

March 21, 2012

SOUTH KINGSTOWN â The South Kingstown Town Council approved the preliminary budget for FY 2012-2013 with two amendments â a $7,000 tax appropriation to the Southern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce and a $500 increase to the Washington County Regional Planning Council.
To balance the $89 million budget, the town council also increased the fund for payment-in-lieu-of-taxes from $227,206 to $234,706, an amount equal to the two changes.

March 21, 2012

In today's paper, we have the stories of two town council meetings that went array. In Narragansett, Town Council President Glenna Hagopian accuses the town manager of wrong doing. In South Kingstown, Democratic town committee chairman Brendon Fogarty gets into an argument with resident Jonathan Daly Labelle, causing a five minute recess.

We also have the plans from the South County Regatta Committee who will have a 12 meter yacht race off of Narragansett Pier on June 21.

March 20, 2012

SOUTH KINGSTOWN â Accusations from teachers and taxpayers that Superintendent Dr. Kristen Stringfellow is controlling the school committee hung in the air Tuesday night.

âItâs hard not to consider the superintendent doesnât have an agenda of her own, whoâs interest is not the education of students in South Kingstown but to serve out her contract and to lay out the foundation for another job elsewhere,â Stephen Burke, a South Kingstown resident said.